Our schools here are shut down til next Wednesday because so many kids and teachers have the flu.
Do you find yourself avoiding places and events because of fears of being exposed to the flu? Everyone I know is staying in as much as possible right now. Many people are even avoiding chuch services.
I hope all of you and your loved ones are healthy.

The flu seasonal or swine which ever is really terrible here right now. There were more than 100 kids absent at the middle school yesterday.
My sister in law called her doctor a few days ago and her doctor urged her not to come into her office unless it was an emergency. She said her office was filled with people suffering from the flu. We have had a couple of people die in this county from flu so far.
Honestly if someone were near me some days the way my seasonal allergies act up in the fall they would swear I had the flu. I will be like this until we get enough had freezing weather to kill all of the weeds. My father in law burns coal for heat which I am allergic to so that always makes me worse.

No, but it would be helpful if those that 'are' sick would use some common sense (okay, that's the problem, they don't have any) and stay out of the population stream. I have yet to visit a store and not cross paths with cougher's and sneezer's that make no effort to block it. One women yesterday was doing a wet cough every 10 seconds, directly in to the air. I almost complained to management to remove her but I figured at that point the damage was done. I left the store shaking my head in disgust.

I've got a co-worker who's hacking-away as I type this. Man- I wish I could avoid her- for reasons both flu-realted AND non-flu-related!

We've just started a mass inoculation programme in this country. I think people are being sensible in staying indoors for the first 5 days after the symptoms are presented. That's when it is most contagious, or so I've read.

Health workers first and then the chronically sick and high risk and then it will just be Joe Blogs left for the jab.

I've decided I won't be having the inoculation. I don't believe in stuffing my body full of artificial toxins. I nearly died when I had the diphtheria and small pox vaccine. The heaf test made me ill. Hep B vaccine kept me in bed a week.

No thanks, I'd rather take my chances with the flu.

I'm not changing anything I do, or places I go. I think there is a lot of fear being fed upon. I see people who love nothing more than having something to fear, or complain about. If it's not the flu, it's something else. I'll stop now before I really start ranting.